As New York elected officials continue to bicker over the state's projected $9 billion deficit, a new Rasmussen Reports statewide telephone survey shows that a majority of voters hold the state legislature responsible for failing to resolve the budget crisis.
Sixty-two percent (62%) of Florida voters favor a law like Arizona’s that authorizes local police to stop and verify the immigration status of anyone they suspect of being an illegal immigrant.
Democratic incumbent Patty Murray manages to reach 50% support against her two leading announced Republican opponents in Washington State’s U.S. Senate race. But she remains in a virtual tie with another Republican, Dino Rossi, who has yet to rule himself in or out.
Just seven percent (7%) of New York voters view politicians in their state as less corrupt than those in other states, according to a new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey.
Adults still have mixed feelings about the state of the economy a year from today, but confidence in the economy's long-range prospects is at its lowest level in over a year.
Americans remain convinced that government workers earn more and have more job security than those who work in the private sector.
A little over a year ago, a columnist for the newspaper that once served as the official communications organ of the Central Committee of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) had some choice words for what remains of America’s free market economy.
Michigan voters aren’t thrilled with their choices for governor. Two-thirds of Democratic Primary voters are either undecided or would prefer some other candidate in the race. Undecided leads among Republican Primary voters.
For the second straight week, 33% of U.S. voters say the country is heading in the right direction, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
Support for the candidates in Colorado's U.S. Senate race largely remains in the same narrow range it's been in for months, with all three Republicans continuing to hold modest leads over their Democratic opponents.
In the opening hours and days of an unanticipated event -- such as the current off-shore oil leak, usually not much can be reliably learned about the details of the intruding event -- but much can reliably be learned about the humans responding to it.
The majority of American adults expect the stock market to recover within the next three years, and short-term optimism is at a new high.
Little has changed this month in Missouri’s race for U.S. Senate, but Republican Congressman Roy Blunt now earns 50% support for the first time against Democrat Robin Carnahan.
The New York State Senate is zeroing in on legislation that would more than double the amount of charter schools in the state. But a new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey finds that Likely Voters in the state have mixed feelings about public funding of the privately managed schools.
The Florida Senate race appears to be a whole new ballgame with Republican Governor Charlie Crist’s decision to run as an independent.
Following weekend protests against the new Arizona law cracking down on illegal immigration, support for the Arizona policy remains unchanged.
Twenty percent (20%) of Illinois Democratic voters think the party should replace Senate candidate Alexi Giannoulias because of his ties to the failed Broadway Bank, according to the latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in the state.
SAN ANTONIO -- It was over frozen lattes three blocks from the Alamo that Lydia Camarillo and I discussed the wave of Latino voters expected to change politics in Texas -- and America. Camarillo is vice president of the Southwest Voter Registration Education Project, a group that signs up new Hispanic voters and spurs them to the polls.
"Meg 2010, Building a New California," the glossy 40-plus-page "policy agenda" for former eBay CEO and GOP gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman, is so slick that it sat on my desk for weeks before I could finish it. I would pick it up, think that, like her candidacy, it is overly packaged, and toss it back on the pile of papers that litter my desk. It does a great job of laying out California's financial woes and suggesting possible reforms -- but it leaves out how she'll get things done in Sacramento.
